Actually apple hardware is pretty awesome... Really thin laptops, really quiet desktop computers (except the power macs, but they are workstations)... 1000mbit ethernet standard even on the mini... Sturdy contruction overall (I saw a vid of a guy smashing a g4 power mac with a hammer and it barely scratched untill the swing-hinge holding the motherboard opened).
Pricey.. yeah.. But every PC manufacturer is trying to make half assed copies of their hardware designs.
Here (quebec) we have broadband that spans a large scale of user demographics.
the cheapest cable has a monthly limit of 1gig up and 1gig down and a speed around 256kbit down, which is very low but acceptable if you only do light browsing and email. The next level of broadband cable is 10gig up/ 20gig down at 6mbit down, 900kbit up, which is fine if you are a casual bittorent user who doesn't leave the application open overnight every night (fine for the occasional linux iso or tv show). The most expensive cable is 10mbit down/1.5mbit up (I believe), with no limit, which is good for hardcore users. The prices are about 25/month for the cheapo plan, 50 for the 20/10 plan, and 75 a month canadian for the unlimited plan. I have never had a problem with the unlimited plan and one of my friends who also has it even had a discussion with one of the cable guys who came by to fix some services who suggested the best bittorrent client to use! I feel 75/month is more than fair for a very fast reliable connection and the cable company doesn't seem to care much about how much users use the unlimited plan.
DSL is a different story, you can get unlimited bandwidth for about 30$ cad a month but the speeds are quite low, about 3mbit down (so they claim, ussually less) and 500kbit up. Generally the cheap dsl is less reliable as well. There are more expensive dsl plans as well and they generally do not have any bandwidth limits.
It sounds like OS X might not be for you. If you want a free and open OS that is not tied to specific hardware and that lets you use whatever UI you want to get your work down, then stick with Linux, FreeBSD, or whatever else floats your boat.
If you want a stable and mature OS that is not completely open, made to be used with specific hardware, but more open and easily integrated with free software than windows, then get OS X. Generally, and this is still as true now as it was before, apple computers are designed with a foccuss on multimedia content creation. It is only recently with the advent of OS X that the geek crowd as really jumped on the apple bandwagon as well. Apple's pro product lines are aimed at people who want a computer that is stable and easy to support, and as a result they are more restrictive when it comes to hardware choice.
As someone who has done a lot of hardware troubleshooting, Apple computers are much easier to deal with due to the fact that they can be narrowed down to specific models. A bit of searching on the web for people who have had similar issues with the same model can mean that diagnosing problems can take very little time. Compared to the PC world where an infinite amount of components can be mixed, diagnosing problems can take an order of magnitude longer and be much more expensive.
To top it off, Macs have excellent RESALE VALUE, so if you get one and don't like it, it would be very easy to sell it off.
well for one thing, windows installation is too hard for many novice users, and using boot camp requires you do that when you set up. Remember, what is trivial for us can be a difficult process for the novice user.
People who kill themselves are simply weak... I call it "thinning the heard".
Whether or not you have a dumb video put online of you acting like an idiot doesn't change whether you have suicidal tendencies deep down.
man the kid could have made a career out of the exposure he got from that video... Too bad he lacked the confidence to use it to his advantage... I think he is even more pathetic now! Seriously, if you get that kind of exposure.. use it!
>ID can take the complexity of life and the structure of the universe itself and explain it in terms anybody >who has ever been to church can understand. Biology can't. Which is sad.
If your meaning of the word "explain" is: Make up a bunch of crap about a man in the sky flicking his fingers and making the world. But I guesse it is easier for the uninformed/naive/uneducated masses to believe that.
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too bad thumb drives aren't free, gmail is, another point of gmail
There is one chink in the armor of your argument however...
If a 15 year old wants something to arouse himself, he might want to see women his own age engaged in sexual acts. THis creates a market for underage pornography.
1) Proprietary hardware makes outfitting a customized kick-ass solution a problem.
If you want a customized kick-ass solution, buy your own parts and build a kick-ass linux box. If you want a very beautiful, stadardized (less compatibility issues!), well built system with a kick ass OS get a mac.
2) Everyone has a friggin Ipod now. Why can't Apple come up with a dorky, techy version of the ipod?
Because only geeks would buy that. If you want an overly complicated player, there are many out there. If you want an efficiant player that does what it was made to do well, get an ipod.
3) Ipod doesn't support Ogg files.
I agree with you here, but many players do not support OGG. I would very much like OGG support on the ipod.
4) Apple DRM sucks
I'd rather have DRM that sucks than very efficient DRM that is impossible to bypass!
You are just as bad as he is if you think he should be killed.
For all I know you could be the equivalent violent anti-spammer who has the same contempt for humanity.
You also need to teach your kids to never fight fair. Bullys typically gang up on weaker kids and stack the odds in their favour, best to arm your kids with strong weapons and a good alibi
yeah it's insane.. We are supposed to have freedom of speech but if you say something like "I hate all niggers" or "kill all the jews".. They are horrible things to say but people should have the right to say it or write it without being censored and fined..
Ubuntu is actually the only distro that works well on my toshiba laptop (newer model)..
No other distro supported 1280 x 800 res out of the box.. Ubuntu AUTO-DETECTED it. That was one of the features that made me stick with it.
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Actually apple hardware is pretty awesome... Really thin laptops, really quiet desktop computers (except the power macs, but they are workstations)... 1000mbit ethernet standard even on the mini... Sturdy contruction overall (I saw a vid of a guy smashing a g4 power mac with a hammer and it barely scratched untill the swing-hinge holding the motherboard opened).
Pricey.. yeah.. But every PC manufacturer is trying to make half assed copies of their hardware designs.
Yeah I wasn't sure how fast it was.. I have it but I share my connection with 3 other people and never get the full bandwidth
Here (quebec) we have broadband that spans a large scale of user demographics.
the cheapest cable has a monthly limit of 1gig up and 1gig down and a speed around 256kbit down, which is very low but acceptable if you only do light browsing and email. The next level of broadband cable is 10gig up/ 20gig down at 6mbit down, 900kbit up, which is fine if you are a casual bittorent user who doesn't leave the application open overnight every night (fine for the occasional linux iso or tv show). The most expensive cable is 10mbit down/1.5mbit up (I believe), with no limit, which is good for hardcore users. The prices are about 25/month for the cheapo plan, 50 for the 20/10 plan, and 75 a month canadian for the unlimited plan. I have never had a problem with the unlimited plan and one of my friends who also has it even had a discussion with one of the cable guys who came by to fix some services who suggested the best bittorrent client to use! I feel 75/month is more than fair for a very fast reliable connection and the cable company doesn't seem to care much about how much users use the unlimited plan.
DSL is a different story, you can get unlimited bandwidth for about 30$ cad a month but the speeds are quite low, about 3mbit down (so they claim, ussually less) and 500kbit up. Generally the cheap dsl is less reliable as well. There are more expensive dsl plans as well and they generally do not have any bandwidth limits.
It sounds like OS X might not be for you. If you want a free and open OS that is not tied to specific hardware and that lets you use whatever UI you want to get your work down, then stick with Linux, FreeBSD, or whatever else floats your boat.
If you want a stable and mature OS that is not completely open, made to be used with specific hardware, but more open and easily integrated with free software than windows, then get OS X. Generally, and this is still as true now as it was before, apple computers are designed with a foccuss on multimedia content creation. It is only recently with the advent of OS X that the geek crowd as really jumped on the apple bandwagon as well. Apple's pro product lines are aimed at people who want a computer that is stable and easy to support, and as a result they are more restrictive when it comes to hardware choice.
As someone who has done a lot of hardware troubleshooting, Apple computers are much easier to deal with due to the fact that they can be narrowed down to specific models. A bit of searching on the web for people who have had similar issues with the same model can mean that diagnosing problems can take very little time. Compared to the PC world where an infinite amount of components can be mixed, diagnosing problems can take an order of magnitude longer and be much more expensive.
To top it off, Macs have excellent RESALE VALUE, so if you get one and don't like it, it would be very easy to sell it off.
well for one thing, windows installation is too hard for many novice users, and using boot camp requires you do that when you set up. Remember, what is trivial for us can be a difficult process for the novice user.
Um, unless someone is threatening your life, it's hard to get away with using a gun on them...
"Oh oh, officer, that hispanic guy in hip-hop attire happened to touch my laptop, so I shot him in the head!"... Yeah that would work
Taping yourself fighting with a "lightsaber" and making stupid sounds, then leaving the video for anyone to take it: free
copying said video and posting it on the internet: free
Destroying some kid's self-esteem while making a few million internet people laugh their fracking asses off: about 350,000$
Creating an internet meme that will go down in history: priceless
People who kill themselves are simply weak... I call it "thinning the heard". Whether or not you have a dumb video put online of you acting like an idiot doesn't change whether you have suicidal tendencies deep down.
man the kid could have made a career out of the exposure he got from that video... Too bad he lacked the confidence to use it to his advantage... I think he is even more pathetic now! Seriously, if you get that kind of exposure.. use it!
>Patents are flawed.
>Copyright law is flawed.
>Trademark law is flawed.
I'd like to add: IN AMERICA
In countries that actually respect the rights of their citizens such as sweden, all the above are much more fair
>ID can take the complexity of life and the structure of the universe itself and explain it in terms anybody >who has ever been to church can understand. Biology can't. Which is sad. If your meaning of the word "explain" is: Make up a bunch of crap about a man in the sky flicking his fingers and making the world. But I guesse it is easier for the uninformed/naive/uneducated masses to believe that.
too bad thumb drives aren't free, gmail is, another point of gmail
I'm in great shape just because I walk alot... Don't use your car unless you absolutely have to... Walk, and eat better... It's not hard to do that
Most people buy a mac for the OS, most people who buy a pc do it because they can't afford a mac
Free software should never be illegal
There is one chink in the armor of your argument however... If a 15 year old wants something to arouse himself, he might want to see women his own age engaged in sexual acts. THis creates a market for underage pornography.
1) Proprietary hardware makes outfitting a customized kick-ass solution a problem.
If you want a customized kick-ass solution, buy your own parts and build a kick-ass linux box. If you want a very beautiful, stadardized (less compatibility issues!), well built system with a kick ass OS get a mac.
2) Everyone has a friggin Ipod now. Why can't Apple come up with a dorky, techy version of the ipod?
Because only geeks would buy that. If you want an overly complicated player, there are many out there. If you want an efficiant player that does what it was made to do well, get an ipod.
3) Ipod doesn't support Ogg files.
I agree with you here, but many players do not support OGG. I would very much like OGG support on the ipod.
4) Apple DRM sucks
I'd rather have DRM that sucks than very efficient DRM that is impossible to bypass!
ipods show up as USB mass storage if you have disk mode on.. I've carted around gigs of data on mine
Make it illegal to outsource to
A) Communist countries (china)
B) Immoral countries that still have a backwards caste system (india)
Problem solved
You are just as bad as he is if you think he should be killed. For all I know you could be the equivalent violent anti-spammer who has the same contempt for humanity.
You also need to teach your kids to never fight fair. Bullys typically gang up on weaker kids and stack the odds in their favour, best to arm your kids with strong weapons and a good alibi
yeah it's insane.. We are supposed to have freedom of speech but if you say something like "I hate all niggers" or "kill all the jews".. They are horrible things to say but people should have the right to say it or write it without being censored and fined..
Ubuntu is actually the only distro that works well on my toshiba laptop (newer model).. No other distro supported 1280 x 800 res out of the box.. Ubuntu AUTO-DETECTED it. That was one of the features that made me stick with it.
It should be noted that windows2000 is a 7 year old OS... Back in 1999 having 128mb of ram was a luxury....
It is using 800mb of page file, it is actually using about 350mb of physical ram...
It could be because of a lot of caching going on